Bengali/Numbers

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In this chapter, the subject matter is pretty obvious: but first we need to start by giving the numbers in Bengali from 0 to 99.

১১৩৮৮৫সংখ্যা - Numbers
As one can immediately tell, the numeral system is exactly the same as in the Western world.

There is no clear-cut way to determine how a number from 20 to 99 sounds like: though there may be patterns, the rules of Sandhi and liaison will have modified the pronunciation greatly. The best way to learn, like with all Bengali concepts, is to hear the numbers used in daily life, and the patterns will come out smoothly.

There are also more Sanskrit numbers, which are not used as much, but from which ordinals are derived: Hundred= Thousand=